PRE-ORDER NOW
BOOK SHIPS IN OCTOBER
$14.00 (Shipping is FREE)

TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS

STORIES

ELIZABETH LOPEMAN

$14.00 (Shipping is FREE)

THE PARABLE OF YOUSTORIES

TONY WOLK

$12.00 (Shipping is FREE)

DISORDER STORIES

DAN DEWEESE

$14.00 (Shipping is FREE)

A SIMPLE MACHINE,
LIKE THE LEVERA NOVEL

EVAN P. SCHNEIDER

$14.00 (Shipping is FREE)

NINE SIMPLE PATTERNS FOR COMPLICATED WOMENSTORIES

MARY RECHNER

$14.00 (Shipping is FREE)

NEWS & EVENTS

SATURDAY, NOV 5, 2016
9am-6pm
Visit Propeller Books at WORDSTOCK: PORTLAND'S BOOK FESTIVAL
Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR
The festival will include author discussions and activities for readers of all ages, an extensive book fair, pop-up readings and concerts, a beverage garden and local food trucks.

EVAN P. SCHNEIDER was interviewed on the 10,000 Hours podcast. He discusses his novel A Simple Machine, Like the Lever, what he's working on now, and getting from A to B in creative work.

TONY WOLK and DAN DEWEESE discuss their story collections (The Parable of You and Disorder), the role of editors, and the goals of Propeller Books on a recent Late Night Library podcast.

PROPELLER BOOKSTOREFREE SHIPPING

ALL BOOKS, ALL QUANTITIES

The Horse Latitudes

fiction

Matthew Robinson

The Horse Latitudes follows one Cavalry platoon’s time in Baghdad, Iraq. The missions are long stretches of boredom broken by flashes of violence. The single sniper shot fired. An IED loosely buried in the roadside, waiting. A schoolyard of kids throwing fist-sized rocks at gun trucks. The enemy is vast and changing, and the downtime is a combination of homesickness, RPGs, and mortar fire. These men suffer through the war, heat, and each other. The Horse Latitudes observes not only the firefights and their aftermath, but also the soldiers' struggles within themselves: how to fight a faceless enemy, what it means to serve, how one soldiers, what makes a man, what makes a good man, what it might mean to die for this, and what it might mean not to.

Trans Europe Express

stories

Elizabeth Lopeman

Across these six stories, Lopeman captures the expatriate experience like no other writer. Her characters experience art, work, love, and tragedy as richly strange and sometimes dangerous when carried over borders or translated across cultures. A collection of vivid images and fascinating characters, Trans Europe Express is a smart, exciting new chapter in the literary tradition of Americans searching Europe not only for experience but, ultimately, for identity.

The Parable of You

stories

Tony Wolk

In the tradition of literary fantasists like Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, Tony Wolk delivers a feast of stories that challenge our assumptions about history, reality, and what stories reveal about their tellers. A collection decades in the making, The Parable of You is the work of a writer able to move from the cosmic to the personal in the space of a few deft sentences, with surprising and moving results.

Disorder

stories

Dan DeWeese

DeWeese's characters—fathers and their children, architects and their critics, writers and their fantasies—search for meaning and identity amid the chaos of contemporary life, in which personal and professional failure often seem just one wrong decision away.

A Simple Machine, Like the Lever

a novel

Evan P. Schneider

Nick Allander, 31, is trying to pay off his debt, impress his girlfriend, keep his job, cast off his introversion, and accept the world's imperfections without abandoning his heart. Unsure of what moves to make, though, he considers growing his beard, taking up alcoholism, abandoning scrounging, and owning an automobile—before too much slips by. All the while he clings to his bicycle, a simple machine whose purpose and workings he grasps.

Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women

stories

Mary Rechner

Over the course of these nine stories, Mary Rechner brings a frank, humorous, and ultimately illuminating narrative voice to the subjects of sex, marriage, family, and work. The patient, uncompromising work of a writer who has carefully observed the moments of possibility and peril that appear—and that we often deliberately seek—in the journey from youth to adulthood, Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women signals the arrival of a significant new voice in contemporary fiction.